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HEAR/HEAR 14!

Posted by Whitney French on Oct 4th 2011

October 12th is the night of our fourteenth HEAR/HEAR Reading Series and you are all invited. Featured at the Supermarket (268 Augusta Ave), HEAR/HEAR 14 is proud to showcase work from our talented S.W.A.T. writers: Roseanne Carrara, Colin Frizzell and Elisabeth de Mariaffi. We'll be giving away wonderful books and an exclusive NHT! t-shirt in our HEAR/HEAR raffle plus we'll be selling our student anthologies: The Armadillo, The Barracuda and The Capybara that evening too! If you popped by to see NOW HEAR THIS! at Word on the Street or read about it on our blog, you may have noticed our spectacular poetry board. If you missed on the fun, come on over to HEAR/HEAR 14 and try your hand at some spontaneous poetry writing!

Grab a sweater, grab a friend and come out to HEAR/HEAR 14! Enjoy performances from talented Toronto writers and make some friends along the way.

So the deets:

HEAR/HEAR 14
October 12 at 6:30 pm
at The Supermarket (268 Augusta Ave.)

Be sure to check out photos from HEAR/HEAR 13, the reading series devoted to our WRITE ON! program, here. For more information about HEAR/HEAR 14 and our reading series in general, click here. RSVP on Facebook, here!

See you there!

Word on the Street 2011 Recap!

Posted by Rachel Hopwood on Sep 26th 2011

Yesterday (September 25) was the Word on the Street Festival in Toronto (and Vancouver, Lethbridge, Saskatoon, Kitchener and Halifax) and NOW HEAR THIS! was happy to spend it in the warm sunshine at Queen's Park sharing our love of creative writing with the rest of the city! If you weren't able to make it out to our booth, never fear — we've got all your highlights here!

After last year's experiment in collaborative writing with typewriters, we decided to try a new project this year: a velcro poetry board! Visitors of all ages enjoyed adding to and reshaping poems on the board over the course of the day, and we've got pictures of some of our favourite creations after the jump. We were also giving out free copies of The Armadillo and The Barracuda, our past anthologies as well as selling copies of The Capybara for only $5 each! Anyone coming by our table could also pick up free buttons and stickers and enter our raffle (raffle winners are announced after the jump, too).

We had a fantastic time meeting new friends and talking about our programming with them. We had visits from S.W.A.T. Writers-in-Residence Ibi Kaslik, Emma Roberts, Devon Code, Roseanne Carrara and Nic Labriola who were able to talk about their experiences with NHT! programs. All-in-all, it was a pretty awesome day!

Make sure you follow the jump to see some pictures of the event, or you can head over to our latest photo album on Facebook!

Experience S.W.A.T. Writer Colin Frizzell's audio play in Prince Edward County

Posted by Rachel Hopwood on Jul 26th 2011

Colin Frizzell has been a writer-in-residence with the S.W.A.T. program in Toronto for five years, but did you know he actually lives in Picton, Prince Edward County, Ontario? Colin is very involved in the Prince Edward County arts community, and has taken part in a new project there — Sounding Ground.

Sounding Ground is a new series of five short audio plays set in Picton. The plays are written by Colin and four other writers (Andrew Binks, Krista Dalby, Ned Dickens and Martha Ross). Home base for this project is Books & Company bookstore in Picton, where your walking tour/adventure will begin and end. By following the action in the plays through Picton, you can experience the work of these authors in an entirely different way.

If you're interested in taking part in the Sounding Ground project, keep reading after the jump for more information!

Don't miss Nic Labriola reading tonight!

Posted by Rachel Hopwood on Jun 21st 2011

Nic Labriola 2010-11 S.W.A.T. Writer-in-Residence and current writer for the Writers' Circuit online program is reading tonight, and you really shouldn't miss it!

Nic will be reading as part of the Boneshaker Reading Series at the St. Clair/Silverthorn branch of the Toronto Public Library tonight (Tuesday, June 21) at 7 pm. This event is free and it also features poet Nicholas Power.

So check it out! All the important details are after the jump...

The 2011 S.W.A.T. Writers-in-Residence Interview Links

Posted by Rachel Hopwood on Jun 9th 2011

Over the course of the winter 2011 edition of S.W.A.T., we posted brief interviews with each of our new Writers-in-Residence. We wanted to give all of you a chance to get to know the amazing people who work so hard to make the S.W.A.T. program a success!

In these interviews our writers dish on what their favourite books were when they were in high school, how their writing process works, and they give some advice to all you aspiring young writers out there. All twelve 2011 S.W.A.T. writers are amazing people who manage to balance helping Toronto teens unlock their literary talents with their own professional writing careers. We should definitely be listening to what they have to tell us.

If you missed any of these writer interviews, just click on "read more" to find links to all twelve!

Inspiring Interviews with Poets!

Posted by Rachel Hopwood on Jun 6th 2011

Here at NOW HEAR THIS! we're always interested to hear about youth being engaged with writing and writers. So, when we came across the new project, The Great Canadian Writer's Craft, on Friday we were pretty excited!

Local Toronto poet a.rawlings was invited to meet and work with two writer's craft classes taught by John Ouzas at Malvern C.I. this past February. With her assistance and instruction the students wrote individual and collaborative poetry, worked with automatic and procedural forms, conducted research to support poetry generation, and performed texts. She was also able to introduce the budding writers to the work of current Canadian poets.

Eventually, as part of a culminating project, the students were able to get in touch with the living, breathing poets they were studying. The questions these students put towards the poets and the responses they solicit are incredibly thoughtful, careful, insightful and fascinating — and they've been gathered together and made available to you and me on the website The Great Canadian Writer's Craft!

While we strongly recommend all the interviews, we would be remiss not to point out that three former S.W.A.T. Writers-in-Residence are featured: Jacob Scheier, Natalie Zina Walschots and Paul Vermeersch! Head on over to the site to read more about these 3 — and 29 other — amazing Canadian poets!

Get to know... Roseanne Carrara!

Posted by Rachel Hopwood on Jun 2nd 2011

Roseanne Carrara Over the course of the winter 2011 edition of S.W.A.T., we're posting brief interviews with each of our Writers-in-Residence. We want to give all of you a chance to get to know the amazing people who work so hard to make the S.W.A.T. program a success! (You can also check out a list of interviews from last year's writers here.)

Today we present the last of our writer interviews - with Roseanne Carrara.

Roseanne Carrara is the author of a A Newer Wilderness (Insomniac Press). She received the Malahat Review Long Poem prize for the sequence, "Kenotaphion." In 2008, she earned her PhD in English (18th century poetry) from the University of Toronto. She is now completing her first novel, The Week in Radio, as well her second book of poems, Spectral Evidence, and, with her husband, Blaise Moritz, a translation of the poems of Jacques Ellul.

Our Q & A with Roseanne Carrara… after the jump!

S.W.A.T. Writer Joseph Maviglia performing twice in upcoming weeks!

Posted by Rachel Hopwood on Jun 1st 2011

2011 S.W.A.T. Writer-in-Residence for Archbishop Romero Secondary School, Joseph Maviglia, is going to be busy for the next few weeks. Joseph is a singer/songwriter as well as a poet, and he'll be performing his music at two upcoming events!

The first is tomorrow, Thursday June 2 at Yonge/Dundas Square as part of the Piazza Italia Toronto celebration of Italy's 150th anniversary. Piazza Italia is a free, all-day event celebrating Italian culture. Joseph will be performing his song 'Father, It's Time' from the Juno-award winning CD The Gathering at 9:00pm. Liam Ward, visiting from Manchester, England will accompany Joseph on harmonica (just as he did at April's HEAR/HEAR reading).

Then, less than a week later, on Wednesday, June 8th, Joseph will be playing on a triple bill with Kathleen Gorman and Laura Fernandez at Hugh's Room. The show begins at 8:30 pm and tickets are $18 or $20 at the door. Joining all three singers throughout the night will be musicians Colleen Allen (saxophone), Robert Hamlyn (guitar), Mark Kelso (percussion), George Koller (bass), Kirk Starkey (cello) and Noah Zacharin (guitar).

So, if you're a fan of great music, make sure you check these performances out! All the details are broken down for you after the jump!

Get to know... Emma Roberts!

Posted by Rachel Hopwood on May 26th 2011

Emma Roberts Over the course of the winter 2011 edition of S.W.A.T., we're posting brief interviews with each of our Writers-in-Residence. We want to give all of you a chance to get to know the amazing people who work so hard to make the S.W.A.T. program a success! (You can also check out a list of interviews from last year's writers here.)

Today we present the sixth of our writer interviews - with Emma Roberts.

Emma Roberts is a Toronto based writer and a graduate of the National Theatre School and the Canadian Film Centre. Her work has appeared in Playwrights Canada Press, Véhicule Press, M-Pty Magazine, Exile: The Literary Quarterly, NOW Magazine, HOUR Magazine and the Globe and Mail. She was a finalist in the 2009 Carl Sautter Memorial Television Outreach Program in Los Angeles and her work has been broadcast regularly on the CBC. This is Emma's first year as a S.W.A.T. Writer-in-Residence. She has been working at St. Mary's Catholic Secondary School.

Emma read her work at the first HEAR/HEAR Reading of 2011 — which you can now hear as a podcast on the HEAR/HEAR website. Our Q & A with Emma Roberts… after the jump!

Get to know... Tanis Rideout!

Posted by Rachel Hopwood on May 16th 2011

Tanis Rideout Over the course of the winter 2011 edition of S.W.A.T., we're posting brief interviews with each of our Writers-in-Residence. We want to give all of you a chance to get to know the amazing people who work so hard to make the S.W.A.T. program a success! (You can also check out a list of interviews from last year's writers here.)

Today we present the fifth of our writer interviews - with Tanis Rideout.

Tanis Rideout is a poet and writer living and working in Toronto. In the fall of 2005 she released her first full-length book of poetry, Delineation, exploring the lives and loves of comic book super-heroines, which was praised as a “tantalizing, harrowing read.” In the spring of 2005 Rideout joined Sarah Harmer to read a commissioned poem on Harmer’s I Love the Escarpment Tour to draw attention to damage being done to the Niagara Escarpment by ongoing quarrying. In 2006 she was named the Poet Laureate of Lake Ontario by the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper and toured with the Tragically Hip's Gord Downie to draw attention to environmental justice issues on the lake. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous quarterlies and magazines and received grants from local and national arts councils. An excerpt from her new poems Arguments with the Lake received second prize in the CBC Literary Awards. Her first novel will be released in Spring 2012 with McClelland and Stewart. This is Tanis's first year as a S.W.A.T. Writer-in-Residence. She has been working at Father Henry Carr.

You can also see Tanis in person at our second HEAR/HEAR Reading of 2011 — on Wednesday, June 15. Our Q & A with Tanis Rideout… after the jump!

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